EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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corporation, and in no case against the members of any firm

or against the directors, trustees or managers of any cor-

poration shall abate, be quashed or set aside under demurrer

because less than the whole number of the members of such

firm or less than the whole number of the directors, trustees

or managers of such corporation have been charged or ar-

rested, but such as are charged and have been arrested may

be tried, and those who have not been charged or those who

being charged have not been arrested may upon being charged

and arrested be tried. In trials in the Circuit Court where

cases have been removed to said court for jury trial, or in

trials upon appeals from justice of the peace, instead of pro-

ceeding to trial upon the warrant issued by the justice, the
State's Attorney may in every such case, before the trial begins,

State's At-
torney to file
charges.

prepare and file in the same any information or charge in the

nature of an indictment, and the case shall be tried thereunder ;

and if any person or persons be charged as the members

of any firm or as the directors or managers of any cor-

poration and shall deny that they are members of such firm

or are directors, trustees or managers of such corporation,

they shall be required to sustain such denials by evidence;

and provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed

to prevent the sale of peach or apple brandy, wines or pure

and unadulterated apple cider manufactured in Dorchester

County from fruit grown therein, in quantities not less than

one gallon, by the grower or growers of such fruit upon the

premises where the said fruit was grown; provided, that

Proviso.

nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any

prosecution for now depending violations of the existing laws

of the State, or for offenses against the same committed before

the passage of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That all Acts and parts of Acts

inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed

to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from and after the first day of May, 1904.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 638.

AN ACT to appropriate certain sums of money to the sup-

port of sundry schools and charitable institutions in the

State of Maryland for each of the two fiscal years ending

on the thirtieth day of September, 1905, and on the thir-

tieth day of September, 1906, respectively.